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Is there even the slightest chance that the bread-and-circus-providing-class will stop this insanity? Will the “Golden Goose” be reduced to a pile of gnawed bones and a memory before they and their zero liability voters figure it out? What manner of expediency will prevail for the “duration of the crisis”? How hard will our current “soft” tyranny become? The answers I see in our future are NOT pleasant ones.

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

I am an accountant in business for 50 years, yes I am an old fart
It’s all about the money
From the local, state and federal level no matter how much money they collect it never reaches what your elected leaders want to spent for what you don’t want, so why do you elect them, give me an answer and I will win the lottery. I think you just want to elect dumber than you so you can complain.
If you paid 99.9% in taxes and had nothing this also would come up short.
You gave up your rights when you formed groups and elected leaders millions of years ago, this was not a bad thing.
So much for the details, this is what I have done for 50 or more years but as long as your wonderful elected leaders make you respond to the the details then you can’t see the forest and you will always lose
They are trained in human behavior and you an’t
Have a good day.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it.
You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it.
Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else.
Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving.
The worst thing that can happen to a nation is for half of the people to get the idea they don’t have to work because somebody else will work for them, and the other half to get the idea that it does no good to work because they don’t get to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

“Why should an American company that pays the 12.5% Irish corporate tax also pay the American Tax?”

Because we don’t want the American company to create jobs overseas in the first place. Because we think that we can wall in our corporations inside American borders and then ratchet up our overall taxation to the same levels as other nations, but maintain the incentives to produce six times more than the world average and thus maintain our six times worldwide standard of living. We think that America’s success has, and will, continue to be pre-ordained by the forces of destiny. We don’t think that America has prospered because of its aberrant individualism but in spite of it. So we think that copying the rest of the world is a path to even greater prosperity. We think that the Average American under French incentives to produce will be an indomitable juggernaut of competitiveness in the 21st century.

In short, we believe in HopNChange. We HOPE that CHANGE to French incentives to produce will have little effect on our prosperity.

I’m no fan of taxation by any means. Having said that let me comment on this issue giving singular focus on the sale of physical goods (as opposed to downloadable)

Commerce based on the sale of a physical good is generally considered taxable under our current, arguably foolish mindset. As such, the use of the internet to facilitate the financial portion of the transaction does not negate the reality that a physical products is transferred from one entity to another and as such should be subject to the taxation of the state of origin just as if the purchaser had guided his horse and buggy across state lines to make the purchase in person.

In this manner states would be forced to truly compete to lower their overall sales tax or other states will steal their business by giving their own citizens a pricing advantage.

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